Approach to Curriehill railway station

Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 31 Jan 2023

This station's name has always struck me as quite odd. It of course would be a surprise to find a normal railway station on a hill, unless there was really no alternative. But ignoring that, the name does imply it is on some kind of higher ground, and whilst it is slightly higher than the ground immediately to the North it sits steeply downhill from the village of Currie, which sits at the Western edge of Edinburgh. The name implies it is at Currie's highest point whereas it is in fact at its lowest. Like a number of stations along this line there are no yellow bumpy bits (there to alert guide dogs, the visually impaired and the blind that the platform edge is a certain distance away) between the outer platform and the slabs at its edge. Slateford, a few stops down towards Edinburgh (which is in the direction the camera is pointed), has no yellow bumps either, and regularly announces this on prerecorded speaker announcements, but I have never heard any apologies here. A microcosm of the British railway system's inconsistencies?!

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